The Portland daily press., 1887-04-25
GENERAL NEWS.


O,Brion has postponed his Canadian trip
for the present.
John Bright advocates a continuance of
free trade in England.
Sealing schooner Active, of Victoria, B.
O., is thaught to be lost. There were 35 per-
sons on board.
A little three-year-old child of a family
named Livingston of Kansas City, fell in a
tubular well eighty. feet deep and ten inches
be heard. but no means can be devised to
rescue it as the body just fits the diameter of
the well.
The Ontorio Legislature has passed a vote
of sympathy with Ireland by 50 to %.
Queen Kapiotina Of the Sandwich Islands,
has accepted an invitation to visit Boston.
Her Majesty is now in San Francisco.
A strike of glass workers at Pittburg, Pa,
is probable. 1t will effect 2, 900 men and fifty
factories.
Serril A. SWEET of Providence, r. l., hung
himself in his barn Saturday.
Thomas DAILY, a farmer of Bolton, Conn.,,
is under arrest for killing his hired man,
named Murphy.
1t is thought clew has been found to the
tragedy recently discovered at Waterbury,
Conn. The soap box in which the remains
were found has been taken to Chicago, where
the murder was probably done.
The employees in the Harmony mill, Troy,
N. Y, attempted to dictate and the mill shut
down. Six hundred hands are idle.
Small pox has appeared among Italian la
borers in New York.
AT Lowell, Mass, yesterday several games
Of base ball in various parts Of the city were
stopped by the police.
Thomas Connolly, fireman in Merrimac
burned yesterday by his clothing catching
fire.
George A. Weeks of Portsmouth, N. H.,
fell from car near Nashua, IN. H., yester-
day morning and was badly injured.
The death Of Eliza Weathersby-Goodw
the actress, promises to have a sequel Dr.
Marion Sims has presented his bill for pro-
fessional services to her husband, Nat c.
| Goodwin, and Mr.. Goodwin has refused to
pay, on the ground that it is exorbitant.
George Granger was run over and killed at
Hartford, Conn.,, yesterday.
The prospects of good crops in Missouri
Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana have been
! improved by rain the past week.
The funeral Of Captain George w. Twole
| OF Portsmouth, n. H., took place yesterday
| with Masonic honors.
The authorities did not interfere with base
ball playing at Brooklyn, New York, yoster-
| day.
There was no choice for Senator in the
| Florida Legislature Saturday.
In duel in Mexico Saturday between two
| officers, both were instantly killed
AT the United States Hotel Saturday one
| of the guests, John Wales of Newton, Mass,
was discovered to be in a critical condi-
| tion from the effects of an overdose of NOR
| phine. The police of Division were noti-
| fed, and he was removed in an ambulance
| to the city hospital Shortly after his arrival
| there the unfortunate man died. 1t is not
known whether the drug was taken with
suicidal intent or not. Wales did business
at No. 492 Washington street, Boston.
The Cunard .steamer Bothnia, which ar
rived at the Cunard wharf yesterday from
Europe, had on board sick passenger named
Ynrso Herberkosky, native of Finland.
While being removed in hack to the Strang-
ers home, corner Marginal and Haynes
streets, he died. The doctor of the ship re-
ported the death to have resulted from heart
The Bush Electric Works at Cincinnati
e were een burned NE yesterday morning. The loss
An extensive natural gas well has been
discovered at N oblesville, Ind.
1t reported that oil has been discovered al
Ransom, Pa. U''0O'oieu a.
The cotton mills at Cohoes. N. v have
neen closed and 600 operatives have heen
| thrown out OF employment 0-